It sounds too good to be true. And indeed, further research may show that it is. For now, though, let's celebrate even the possibility that the newly uncovered wall paintings in William Morris's Red House, where he lived in the 1860s, really may have been painted by Elizabeth Siddal, Ford Madox Brown, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, on visits to Morris's Philip Webb-designed house in Kent. According to Jan Marsh, president of the William Morris Society, the glittering group were indeed behind the previously unknown works revealed this week. If she is right, it feels as dazzling a discovery as the appearance of a completely unknown Beatles album might be. It's certainly another landmark in a bumper year for admirers of the great designer and socialist, whose newly reopened house in Walthamstow has also recently been named museum of the year. Now, if only Morris's ideas could have a revival to match …